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==Factory with basic-machines==

The above section [[Mods/basic_machines#Grinder|Grinder]] had recipes for duplicating iron, copper, gold, mese and diamonds.<br />
(Same for ore from other mods, e.g. tin/silver/mithril, ...)<br />
Here follows an overview of the machines and equipment required to do that.

For cost, we assume 3 steel or copper or bronze = 1 gold, 1 mese crystal = 5 gold, 1 diamond = 10 gold (as on the ROBOTS-server).

===Basics===
* '''Constructor''' - for making the basic machines.
: Cost: 8 steel + 9 copper = '''6 gold'''

* '''Battery''' - to power the machines
: Cost: 3 steel + 9 mese + 1 diamond = 1 + 45 + 10 = '''56 gold'''
: Cost per upgrade: 1 mese-block + 1 diamond-block = 45 + 90 = '''135 gold'''
: Total: 56 + 99 &times; 135 = 56+13365 = '''13421 gold'''
: (We need to build 2 batteries: one to build a generator, and one to use as a battery)
:'''New since 2017-12-19''':
: Cost: 16 copper + 2 tin + 9 mese + 1 diamond = 6 + 45 + 10 = '''61 gold'''
: Cost per upgrade: 1 mese-block + 1 diamond-block = 45 + 90 = '''135 gold'''
: Total: 61 + 200 &times; 135 = 61+27000= '''27061 gold'''
: (We need to build 6 batteries: 5 to build a generator, and one to use as a battery)

* '''Generator''' - make power cells for the batteries
: Cost: 1 battery + 5 diamond-blocks = 56 + 5 &times; 90 = '''506 gold'''
: Cost per upgrade: 1 gold-block + 1 diamond-block = 9 + 90 = '''99 gold'''
: Total: 506 + 99 &times; 99 = 506+9801 = '''10307 gold'''
:'''New since version 2017-12-19''':
: Cost: 5 battery + 5 diamond-blocks + 5 gold-blocks = 5 &times; ( 61 + 90 + 9 ) = 5 * 160 = '''800 gold'''
: Cost per upgrade: 1 generator = '''800 gold'''
: Total1: 800 +  4 &times; 800 =  800+3200 =  '''4000 gold''' (minimum to reach medium-level, to produce blue power-blocks)
: Total2: 800 + 20 &times; 800 = 800+16000 = '''16800 gold''' (minimum to reach high-level, to produce green power-rods)
** The cost of all the '''upgrades''' for generator and battery are the most expensive, by far.

* '''Mover''' - harvest, plant, move items from inventory to inventory.
: Cost: 6 mese + 2 stone + 1 keypad = 6 &times; 5 + stone + wood = '''30 gold'''
:: Similar (but much simpler) devices from [[Mods/Mesecons|mesecons]] are pistons and sticky-pistons.
:: A robot (from [[Mods/basic robot|basic_robots]]) costs about as much as such a mover.

* '''Grinder''' - grind input item into dust.
: Cost: 13 diamonds + 4 mese-blocks = 130 + 4 &times; 45 = '''310 gold'''

===Normal stuff===
* '''Furnace''' - to smelt ore, dust and other stuff (stones, wheat, etc.)
: Cost: 8 stone
** Furnace1 - smelt dust 33% into dust 66% 
** Furnace2 - smelt dust 66% into finished items
* Chests - to store input and output materials from each step
: Cost: 8 wood (+ 1 steel for lock)
* Keypads - to activate the machines
: Cost: 2 wood
* Suitable room, doors, lights, etc.
: To secure the area, you might also need some protectors (depends on installed mods).

===Advanced===
* '''Clock-generator''' -  every 5 seconds, it activates the device on top
: Cost: 1 Diamond-Block + 1 Keypad = '''90 gold'''
:: A similar device from mesecons is the blinky-plant (activate every 3 seconds). 
* '''Detector'''        - detect & measure conditions, and activate machines. 
: Cost: 4 Mese-Crystals + 1 Keypad = '''20 gold'''
:: A similar device from mesecons is the object-detector.
* '''Distributor'''     - forward an input signal to up to 16 other devices. 
: Cost: 1 Steel         + 1 Mese-crystal + 1 Keypad = '''6 gold'''
:: With mesecons, you need to use wires, and logic-gates.
* '''Ball-spawner'''    -  spawn an energy ball that can activate stuff
: Cost: 1 Power cell    + 1 Keypad 
* '''AutoCrafter'''     - automatic crafting
: Cost: 5 Steel         + 2 Mese-Crystals + 2 Diamond-Blocks = 2+10+180 = '''192 gold'''

===Example-setups===
The most humble setup (see factory1) would be for producing clay-bricks (requires no upgrades), by hand (no automation):
* constructor, generator, battery, grinder: 6 + 56 + 506 + 310 = '''878 gold'''
: The furnace can also be used for smelting ore, making glass, baking flour to bread, etc.
'''New since 2017-12-19''':  6 + 61 + 800 + 310 = '''1177 gold'''

Minimum setup for producing diamonds (see factory2):
* as above, plus the following upgrades: 
: The generator needs 20 upgrades to produce the blue powerblocks
: The battery needs 8 upgrades to power the grinder while grinding diamonds
The time to cook diamond-dust is about 5 minutes, twice.
: It needs one pass for the 33%-dust, and another pass for the 66%-dust.
* 878 + 20 &times; 135 + 8 &times; 99 = 878 + 1980 + 792 = '''3650 gold'''
'''New since 2017-12-19''':  
: The generator needs at least 4 upgrades to produce the blue powerblocks
: The battery needs 3 meseblocks as upgrades to use the blue powerblocks (e.g. for furnace)
: The battery needs 8 upgrades to power the grinder while grinding diamonds ??
* 1177 + 4 &times; 800 + 8 &times; 99 = 1177 + 3200 + 792 = '''5169 gold'''

Factory with maximum (99) upgrades:
* 878 + 13421 + 10307 = '''24606 gold'''
With those upgrades, the time to cook diamond-dust is about 130 seconds, twice.

'''New since 2017-12-19''': <br />
...

Additionally, a factory owner might want some automation.<br />
E.g. set up some movers:
# move energycrystals from the generator to the battery
# move ore/dust from a chest to the furnace-input
# move finished products from the furnace-output to a chest
A robot costs about the same as a mover, but can be programmed - so it is more flexible.

And after all that, the factory owner might want a second furnace (with a second battery, <br />
plus upgrades, plus automation) to cook both kinds of dust at the same time...
: ( and maybe another set for cooking mese, and another to cook misc stuff :)
Only one generator is needed - it produces enough energy for several batteries.

===Automation===
Activating all these machines, moving stuff, etc.
quickly gets boring and tiresome, so these steps should be automated.

Machines for automating the factory:
* Mover - move stuff (i.e. fuel/powercells, ore/dust, finshed products)
* AutoCrafter - set up a recipe, and craft automatically
* Clock generator - repeatedly send activation signals (e.g. to keep a furnace running)
* Detector - sense condition, eg. stuff in inventory, open/closed door/trapdoor, ...
* Distributor - activate several machines (movers, furnaces...)
* basic robots - can do the work of movers and distributors

==Example-Factories==
===Farming===
** [[Mods/basic_machines/Farm]] - Automated farming

====Introduction====
This is for harvesting crops, like wheat or cotton.<br />
Farming whole trees is also possible.

We need a constructor, generator, battery, and mover
plus simple stuff like chest and keypad.

The '''mover''' is used in 'dig'-mode, 
the source-area set to the field to be harvested,
and a chest as target.<br />
The mover also has a reverse-mode that can be used for planting seeds
after the harvest.<br />
This is activated by sending an 'off'-signal to the mover.<br />
A mover has a range of 10, so it needs to be near the field.

The '''battery''' provides power to adjacent devices<br />
so it needs to be placed left/right/in front or behind the mover.
It also needs to be filled with some power-crystals (and optionally with upgrades).

The '''generator''' that produces the power-crystals can be located anywhere,
and for now, we just move the crystals by hand.

To activate the mover, we need some device, 
eg. a keypad, a detector or some mesecons-devices (eg. lever, pressure-plate).<br />
The '''keypad''' is the most cheap and simple of these,
and a good place for it is on top of the mover.

The '''constructor''' is needed to produce all the basic-machines.<br />
A constructor can also produce coal from energy-crystals,
for use as fuel in furnaces.<br />
If it is not needed for operations, it can still serve as a storage-block, 
like a chest.

====Setup====
* Prepare the field (dirt, water, hoe, seeds, protector),
* Make and install the constructor, eg. 'at home'.
* Make and install the generator 'at home' or near the field,
* place mover near the field (or at its center), 
* place battery next to the mover,
* place keypad on top of the mover,
** configure the keypad,
* place chest (or constructor) near the mover (witin range 10)
* configure the mover.

====Cost====
* Constructor:  8 steel + 9 copper
* Mover:        6 mese-crystals + 2 stone + 1 keypad 
** Upgrade:     1 mese-block (max. 10)
* Battery:      16 copper + 2 tin + 1 mese-block + 1 diamond
** Upgrade:      mese-block (for power), diamond-block (for capacity)
* Generator:    5 battery + 5 diamond-blocks + 5 gold-blocks 
** Upgrade:     1 generator per level
* misc: wood, stone

Table:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! # !!          Item !! Steel !! Copper !! Tin !! Gold !! Mese-Crystal !! Diamond !! Remarks
|-
|   || MineGeld prices ||  4  ||      5 ||  5  ||  10  ||    15        ||  20 || for server [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19319 Blue world]
|-
| 1 || Constructor   ||    8  ||      9 ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||   - ||
|-
| 1 || Mover         ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     6        ||   - ||
|-
| 1 || Battery       ||    -  ||     16 ||  2  ||   -  ||     9        ||   1 ||
|-
| 1 || Generator/Up. ||    -  ||     80 || 10  ||  45  ||    45        ||  45 ||
|-
| = || '''Total'''   ||    8  ||     96 || 12  ||  45  ||    60        ||  46 ||
|-
| = || (in MineGeld) ||   32  ||    480 || 60  || 450  ||   900        || 920 || '''Sum=2842'''
|}

...

====Configuration====
* Mover:
** Mode: dig
** Source1, 2: opposite corners of the field
** Target: chest
* Keypad: 
** Mode: 2 (=ON)
** Target: 0 -1 0 (this means the block just below the keypad)

====Operation====
* Get energy-crystals from generator and put them into the mover.
* Wait until the crops are ripe (look for ...)
* Punch keypad to activate the mover
* Get harvested crops from chest
Energy required: ...

====Notes====
Results/Profits to be expected:<br />
* a field with 8x8 spaces planted with cotton yields 64 strings after growing about 2 days
* this can be turned into 16 blocks of wool, or
* crafting a small  bag needs  25 strings 
* crafting a medium bag needs  54 strings 
* crafting a large  bag needs 112 strings 
* From 64 wheat we could produce 16 flour, and bake that to 16 bread.
: But with lots of animal-mobs around, there might be not much demand for bread.

On the server [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19319 Blue world], 10 wool sell for 8 minegeld,<br />
and a small bag is sold for 20 minegeld at the spawn-shop.<br />
Players get 1 minegeld each day if they dig or place at least one block.

Considering the substancial cost of this 'factory', and the rather low profit,<br />
this is probably not a project for poor, starting players.

: (But it looks nice as a demo, when built by an admin, or a proud owner of a factory3 :)

Also, the farm can be extended and automated, eg. 
* make flour from wheat, bake that to bread, and fill a shop with it.
* make wool from cotton, and produce bags and rope.
* from wood, we can produce chests, torches, ladders, doors, trapdoors, signs, etc.

===Factory1 - Starter===
** [[Mods/basic_machines/Factory1]] - Starter Workshop 

====Introduction====
This is a workshop for manufacturing simple stuff, like coal, torches, bread, glass, bricks, <br />
and processing low-grade ore (iron, copper, tin, clay, sand). <br />
This is probably not your real goal, but rather 'the best you can do' <br />
while you don't have enough upgrades for doing 'real work' (see next chapter, factory2).

We need a constructor, generator, battery, and grinder,
plus simple stuff like chest, furnace and keypad.<br />
No upgrades required (or rather 'without upgrades, we can do only low-level stuff').

The key-item to get rich is the grinder.<br />
It can grind ore and ingots to dust, which doubles the amount.<br />
Thus, with 2 passes thru a furnace, we can double our yield.

Eg. 1 iron-ore is ground to 2 iron-dust (33% purity).<br />
The furnace will turn that to 2 iron-dust (66%),<br />
and another pass thru a furnace finally gives you 2 steel-ingots.

A battery can power a  grinder or furnace on top,<br />
and battery-upgrades accellerate the cooking time of a furnace.

Upgrades enable a generator to produce energy faster, <br />
and better types of energy-crystals (eg. with 4 upgrades it makes blue power-blocks ).

Note: for high-grade materials (gold, mese, diamonds...) the grinder needs
upgrades in its battery,<br />
and the generator needs upgrades as well.

Also, a constructor can turn energy-crystals from the generator into coal.<br />
Coal-blocks made from 9 coal burn better and last longer then simple coal-lumps.

So, once we have a complete workshop and some ore of each type, <br />
there is no more need for boring old digging and mining,<br />
and we can concentrate on exciting new work in our factory<br />
(like moving stuff between constructor/generator/battery/grinder/furnaces/chests :)

====Setup====
E=Generator  B&G=Battery+Grinder+Keypad  M=Mover  F=Furnace  C=Chest or constructor
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| C1 || __ ||  M3 || __ || __ || __ || __ || __
|-
| E  || M1 || B&G || M2 || __ || F1 || F2 || C2
|-
| __ || __ ||  M4 || __ || __ || __ || __ || __
|}

* Build a secure base for the factory (house/cave, doors, protectors...),
* Make and install the first constructor
* Make and install the generator (this is quite expensive, see 'costs' below)
* make and place battery #1 so it has 4 free spaces around it
: so we can place movers on these spaces later
* make and place grinder on top of battery
* make and place a keypad on top of the grinder
* make and place a mover next to battery #1
* configure the keypad (to point at the mover)
* configure the mover (to move energy from generator to battery)
* place 2 furnaces, chests

...

====Cost====
* Constructor:  8 steel + 9 copper
* Mover:        6 mese-crystals + 2 stone + 1 keypad 
** Upgrade:     1 mese-block (max. 10)
* Grinder:      13 diamonds + 4 mese-blocks 
* Battery:      16 copper + 2 tin + 1 mese-block + 1 diamond
** Upgrade:      mese-block (for power), diamond-block (for capacity)
* Generator:    5 battery + 5 diamond-blocks + 5 gold-blocks 
** Upgrade:     1 generator per level
* misc: wood, stone

Table:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! # !!          Item !! Steel !! Copper !! Tin !! Gold !! Mese-Crystal !! Diamond !! Remarks
|-
|   || MineGeld prices ||  4  ||      5 ||  5  ||  10  ||    15        ||  20 || for server [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19319 Blue world]
|-
| 1 || Constructor   ||    8  ||      9 ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||    - ||
|-
| 1 || Mover         ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     6        ||    - ||
|-
| 0 || Mover-Upgrade ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     9        ||    - ||
|-
| 1 || Grinder       ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||    36        ||   13 ||
|-
| 1 || Battery       ||    -  ||     16 ||  2  ||   -  ||     9        ||    1 ||
|-
| 0 || Battery-Upgr. ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     9        ||    9 ||
|-
| 1 || Generator/Up. ||    -  ||     80 || 10  ||  45  ||    45        ||   45 ||
|-
| = || '''Total'''   ||    8  ||     96 || 12  ||  45  ||    96        ||   59 ||
|-
| = || (in MineGeld) ||   32  ||    480 || 60  || 450  ||  1440        || 1180 || '''Sum=3642'''
|}


====Configuration====
* Mover #1:
** Mode:      Inventory
** Source1,2: Generator, 'Fuel'
** Target:    Battery,   'Fuel'

* Keypad #1
** Mode: 2 (ON)
** Target: Mover #1

====Operation====
There are several flows to maintain:
* move energy-crystals from the generator to the battery powering the grinder
* move fuel to the furnaces:
: With only one battery for now, we use coal for the furnaces
: We could also burn other collected stuff, eg. leaves, wood, cactus ...
** move energy from generator to constructor (when grinder not in use)
** convert energy to coal (select 'coal', and press the 'craft'-button)
: maybe make coal-blocks from coal
** move coal/blocks from constructor to furnaces
* move input material into grinder, 
** grind it
* move 33%dust to furnace#1, 
* move 66%dust to furnace#2, 
* move finished stuff to chest
You may want separate sets of furnaces for iron and copper, <br />
and another for cooking misc low-volume stuff like glass, tin, flour, clay.

Steps:
* Get energy-crystals from generator and put them into the battery.
* get some ore, put it in grinder-input (use shift-move)
* move dust/33% from grinder-output   into furnace#1
* move dust/66% from furnace#1-output into furnace#2
* move finished ingot from furnace#2 to a chest or constructor (or back into grinder)
...

====Notes====
* The Generator stops when it is full with 25 energy-crystals,<br />so you must move them out often.
: This would be the first task to automate.
* When moving energy into a battery by hand, one energy-crystal is lost.
: This doesn't happen when using a mover to fill a battery.

* Cooking times
...

===Factory2===
** [[Mods/basic_machines/Factory2]] - Minimum factory, to process diamonds

====Introduction====
This is for also producing high-grade stuff, including mese and diamonds.<br />
As above, plus upgrades. Also, some more furnaces, constructors and maybe batteries.

...

====Setup====
'''Floorplan:'''

E=Generator   CD=ClockGenerator+Distributor<br />
B&G=Battery+Grinder+Keypad  M=Mover  mm=space reserved<br />
F=Battery+Furnace  C=Chest or constructor  A=AutoCrafter

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| C1 || C2 ||  M2 || __ || __ || m5 || __ || __ || m8 || __ || __
|-
| E  || M1 || B&G || M3 || m4 || F1 || m6 || m7 || F2 || m9 || C0
|-
| CD || C3 ||  mm || __ || __ || mm || __ || __ || mm || __ || __
|}

* C0: Chest for Output
* C1, C2, C3: Constructors to convert energy-crystals to coal
: power-rods -1-> power-blocks -2-> power-cells -3-> coal

* M1: Mover for getting energy from generator to constructor#1
* M2: Mover for filling grinder-battery
* M3: Mover for moving dust    from grinder   to furnace#1
* m4: move energy to constructor#2
* M5: Mover for filling furnace-battery
* M6: Mover for moving dust    from furnace#1 to furnace#2
* m7: move energy to constructor#3
* M8: Mover for filling furnace-battery
* M9: Mover for moving ingots  from furnace#2 to chest

The distributor routes the periodic signal from the clockgenerator to all the movers 
and batteries, <br />
to keep the batteries full, and the furnaces running.

While the factory is not yet completed, the work of missing movers must be done by hand.

====Upgrades====
'''Generator-Upgrades:'''
*  0 - Generator produces 1 power-cell  every 18 seconds --> 25*1 energy
*  1 - Generator produces 3 power-cells every 18 seconds 
*  2 - Generator produces 5 power-cells every 18 seconds
*  3 - Generator produces 7 power-cells every 18 seconds
 
*  4 - Generator produces 1 power-blocks every 18 seconds --> 25*11 energy
*  5 - Generator produces 1 power-blocks every 16 seconds
..
* 19 - Generator produces 1 power-rods every 20 seconds --> 100 energy
* 20 - Generator produces 2 power-rods every 20 seconds
..

'''Battery-Upgrades:''' (Diamond-blocks for power, mese-blocks for capacity)
* 0 diamond-blocks - maxpower  1 - enough to power the grinder for iron, copper, gravel, clay
* 1 diamond-blocks - maxpower  3
* 2 diamond-blocks - maxpower  5
* 3 diamond-blocks - maxpower  7 - enough to power the grinder while grinding gold
* 4 diamond-blocks - maxpower  9 - enough to power the grinder while grinding mese
* 5 diamond-blocks - maxpower 11
* 6 diamond-blocks - maxpower 13
* 7 diamond-blocks - maxpower 15
* 8 diamond-blocks - maxpower 17 - enough to power the grinder while grinding diamonds
..

*  0 mese-blocks - capacity  3 - base
*  1 mese-blocks - capacity  6
*  2 mese-blocks - capacity  9
*  3 mese-blocks - capacity 12 - enough to use blue power-blocks
*  4 mese-blocks - capacity 15
*  5 mese-blocks - capacity 18 - enough to grind 1 diamond before recharging
*  6 mese-blocks - capacity 21
*  7 mese-blocks - capacity 24
*  8 mese-blocks - capacity 27
*  9 mese-blocks - capacity 30
* 10 mese-blocks - capacity 33
* 11 mese-blocks - capacity 36 - enough to grind 2 diamonds
* 12 mese-blocks - capacity 39
* 13 mese-blocks - capacity 42
* 14 mese-blocks - capacity 45
* 15 mese-blocks - capacity 48
* 16 mese-blocks - capacity 51 - enough to grind 3 diamonds
* 17 mese-blocks - capacity 54
* 18 mese-blocks - capacity 57
* 19 mese-blocks - capacity 60
* 20 mese-blocks - capacity 63
* 21 mese-blocks - capacity 66
* 22 mese-blocks - capacity 69 - enough to grind 4 diamonds
..

'''Mover-Upgrades:'''
*  0 mese-blocks - base
*  1 mese-blocks - 
...

So, to process diamonds we need at least
* 4 generator-upgrades
* 8 diamond-blocks and 5 mese-blocks to upgrade the grinder-battery
* 1 diamond-blocks and 3 mese-blocks for each of our 2 furnace-batteries
* = 10 diamond-blocks and 11 mese-blocks
* 1 upgrades for movers
...

====Cost====
Table:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! # !!          Item !! Steel !! Copper !! Tin !! Gold !! Mese-Crystal !! Diamond !! Remarks
|-
|   || MineGeld prices ||  4  ||      5 ||  5  ||  10  ||    15        ||  20 || for server [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19319 Blue world]
|-
|  3 || Constructor    ||    8  ||      9 ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||    - ||
|-
|  0 || AutoCrafter    ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||    - ||
|-
|  1 || Clockgen       ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||    9 ||
|-
|  1 || Distributor    ||    1  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     1        ||    - ||
|-
|  0 || Detector       ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     4        ||    - ||
|-
|  9 || Mover          ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     6        ||    - ||
|-
|  9 || Mover-Upgrade  ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||    81        ||    - ||
|-
|  1 || Grinder        ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||    36        ||   13 ||
|-
|  3 || Battery        ||    -  ||     48 ||   6 ||   -  ||    27        ||    3 ||
|-
| 10 || Battery-Upgr.P ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||     -        ||   90 ||
|-
| 11 || Battery-Upgr.C ||    -  ||      - ||  -  ||   -  ||    99        ||    - ||
|-
|  5 || Generator/Upgr.||    -  ||    400 ||  50 || 225  ||   225        ||  225 ||
|-
|  = || '''Total'''    ||    9  ||    457 ||  56 || 225  ||   479        ||  340 || 
|-
|  = || (in MineGeld)  ||   36  ||   2285 || 280 || 2250 ||  7185        || 6800 || '''Sum=18836'''
|}

====Configuration====
====Operation====
====Notes====
...

===Factory3===
** [[Mods/basic_machines/Factory3]] - maxed, and automated factory

====Introduction====
Like Factory2, with maxed generator and batteries, plus automation.

====Setup====
====Cost====
====Configuration====
====Operation====
====Notes====